Hair-pin



No. 6l6,680; Patented Dec. 27, I898. C. A. M'ELDBUM.

HAIR PIN.

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SPECIFICAT] 0N forming part of Letters Patent No. 616,680, datedDecember 27, 1898.

Application filed August 3, 1898.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES A. MELDRUM, a citizen of the United States,residing at Detroit, county of \Vayne, State of Michigan, have inventeda certain new and useful Improvement in Hair-Pins; and I declare thefollowing to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,which form a part of this specification.

My invention has for its object certain improvements in hair-pins, ashereinafter described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 are views in elevation showingmodifications of my invention. Fig. 3 shows in outline the location ofthe wires embodied in Fig. 1, the wires being untwisted in order to moreclearly illustrate the manner of constructing the pin shown in Fig. 1.Fig. 4: is also a view showing in outline the form of pin illustrated inFig. 2, but the wires being untwisted.

It will be understood that Figs. 3 and 4C are used to represent themanner of constructing the pin shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the outline shownin Figs. 3 and 4 showing the pins incomplete.

The improved pins herewith illustrated are formed with one or moreprongs formed of twisted wire, the wire forming the twisted prong beingbent back and twisted on itself, so as to leave the prong with abent endrather than with the wire cut or pointed at the end.

In the drawings,A represents prongs formed of twisted wire, the wirebeing bent back intermediate of its ends and twisted upon itself in thecompleted article, as shown, leaving bent ends at the extremities of theprongs, as indicated at a, so that the extremities of the prongs willnot cut or tear the hair or injure the scalp. As shown in Fig. 2, thepin may be formed with two prongs only. In all of the cases shown thepins are made of a single piece of wire. XVhen the pin is formed ofSerial No 688,035. (No model.)

two prongs, as in Fig. 2, one end of the wire is bent back analogous tothe outline shown in Fig. 4:, after which the two adjacent portions ofwire are twisted upon themselves, as shown in Fig. 2, the extremities ofthe wire being brought back to the head of the pin, where they may besoldered together, as at a, or the extremities may be otherwise securely fastened at the head of the pin.

In the form shown in Fig. 1 one end of the wire is bent back on itself,then downward to form a middle prong, and then back to the head, andagain downward and back to the head, as outlined in Fig. 3, the twoextremities of the wire being brought back adjacent to the head of thepin. The adjacent parts of each prong may be twisted upon itself to formthe individual prongs, and the extremities of the wire may then betwisted at the head about the center prong, as indicated at a Fig. 1. Ido not limit myself to any particular way the wire at the head of thepin, as they may be soldered or twisted about adjacent parts orotherwise fastened in place, as maybe desired. A pin so constructed maybe formed in a very simple and economical manner, while the prongs, oneor more, may be formed of the wire bent back and twisted on itself, thusforming a prong adapted to have a fixed retention in the hair and onenot liable to become displaced. The pins being formed of a single pieceof wire may readily be formed of wire cut of desired lengths.

here two or more prongs are twisted in the manner described, byconstructing the extremities of the prongs in the form of a loop orbend, as indicated at a,there is not only no liability of injuring thehair or scalp, but the extremities of the wire are brought back to thehead and fastened in such a position that said extremities are out ofthe way of doing injury.

What I claim as my invention isl. Ahair-pin formed of a single piece ofwire having the extremities thereof bent back upon the body of the wireand twisted, forming of fastening the extremities of twisted prongs, theextremities of the Wire betened adjacent to the head of the pin, subingbrought back and fastened adjacent to stantially as set forth.

the head of the pin, substantially as set forth. In testimony whereof Isign thisspecifica- 2. A th-ree-pronged hair-pin made of a sintion inthe presence of two Witnesses. r 5 gle piece of Wire bent back andtwisted. upon CHARLES A. MELDRUM.

itself to form twisted prongs, the extremities Vitnesses: 0f the prongsbeing looped and the extremi- N. S. WRIGHT, ties of the wire beingbrought back and fas- MARY HIOKEY.

